Hi Friends,

I’m sitting in bed and felt a nudge to do an audio recording to share with you all. I didn’t know what I would talk about, but before pressing record, the words My heart wants you to know that you’re whole came to me. So that’s where I began.

I hope this serves your spirit in some way.

Sweet dreams…Scott

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Hi Friends,

I recorded this message a couple years ago and it feels like a good reminder right now. And always.

Let me know how it resonates, and share with us all some other helpful questions you ask yourself to stay connected to love, and peace, and joy, and whatever else you’re seeking.

Every single thing we think, feel and do is human to think, feel and do, or we wouldn’t be experiencing it. Let’s be gentle with ourselves as we nudge ourselves toward a more compassionate and heart-centered way of being. And let’s never forget that love is our greatest healer, and that its energy is everywhere, within and outside of us. When we choose to engage with the energy of love, we have a much better chance of creating for ourselves and our world the kind of just and compassionate reality so many of us are longing for. Let’s stay committed to being the example of that which we’re seeking to create. Let’s continue to love the hell out of ourselves, each other, and our world.

Holding you all in my heart and sending so much love.

xoxo…Scott

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Hi Friends,

I sat down this morning to work on an essay I started a few weeks ago about my struggle to figure out how to show up right now, about the heaviness I feel for our country and world, about the ever-present contradictions I grapple with as a human being in this place and time. But I don’t feel like writing about any of that right now, because I woke up this morning, having just completed an 82 hour water fast, feeling good. Feeling grounded, and joyful, and deeply connected to love.

So I’m not going to force myself into the energy of despair just to complete an essay. I’m going to hold onto this content feeling, gonna welcome it in and wrap my spirit around it as long as it lasts, gonna let myself feel joy because it’s as important as any other way to feel, even and perhaps especially in a world with so much heartbreak.

The video I’m sharing today I recorded a few years ago. In it I talk about the gift of bringing awareness to what we’re doing and how we’re feeling about what we’re doing, and the invitation in this awareness to align our choices with better feeling ways of being.

I see so much of my spiritual path as common sense. Do more of what feels good and you’ll feel good more often. Do less of what feels bad and you’ll feel bad less often. This is not advanced calculus kind of stuff. And yet, as we all know, simple and easy are not the same things, at least when it comes to living more peaceful, joyful, aligned lives.

Even so, awareness is always a great place to start. How is what I’m choosing to do right now making me feel? is a helpful question to ask, especially if we have the courage to stick with or shift our actions in accordance with the response. Without awareness, change can be especially difficult.

Let me know how the video lands for you.

I’m happy with my choice not to dive into the essay I’d been working on, not to force myself into an energy I’m not currently feeling. I’m happy with myself for opening up to the feeling of peace and joy I have right now, for choosing not to stifle it because of all the suffering out there, for remembering that it’s not my misery that helps to lift people out of theirs.

We are here to feel everything, or we wouldn’t be feeling everything. Please let yourself feel joy when it comes around. Welcome it. Play and dance and laugh with it until it decides to move on.

So much love to you all. Thank you for being here.

xoxo…Scott

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* Chicago Area Folks: Join me live in Oak Park on Saturday, April 5th, from 1:30 - 4:30pm, for the Enough As You Are workshop.

* Join my dear friend and brilliant spiritual teacher Lee Harris in La Jolla, CA, in July for his beloved Soul Magic retreat.

Hi Friends,

Take 55 seconds and really breathe into the message from the video above. One of the surest ways to create a deeper, more loving relationship with yourself (and by extension, the world) is to understand that your worth, your enoughness, is inherent. You were born and will die worthy. You are as enough right now as you could or will ever be or have ever been. Feel that truth. Root yourself in your worthiness.

Worth is not predicated on anything. Not looks, or money, or success, or family. Nothing. It’s a birthright. Whether we believe this to be the case, however, impacts our experience of the world. A person who understands their inherent worth moves through the world quite differently than one who believes themself to be unworthy. For me it feels like the difference between being inflated and deflated, open and closed, secure and insecure.

Along with the minute-long video, today I’m going to share some passages from Enough as You Are, in the hopes that we can enter into this weekend feeling steady connection to self-acceptance and love, to our worthiness, to the truth that we are, each of us, enough as we are.

Please remember: it’s always what we do from this moment on that matters the most, and it is never too late to deepen, strengthen, transform the relationship you have with yourself, and therefore, with everyone and everything else. A good place to start is with a sincere willingness and commitment to love yourself like never before, and then see where that willingness takes you.

Whether your mind believes it or not, you really are worthy and enough, just as you are. Your heart never doubts this truth.

So much love to you all, and deep gratitude for your presence here.

xoxo…Scott

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Upcoming Events:

Live Online Breathwork Journey on Wednesday, March 26th at 8pm ET

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

Inner Peace & Power in Portugal (one room left) from November 9th-15th

Insight Timer Meditations:

You Are Enough, Just as You Are

The Messages of Your Heart

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits

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Get free access to one of my live online breathwork journeys when you buy a paperback copy of Big Love. Email me a screenshot of your purchase, and come breathe with me for free (typically $25).

My dear friend Lee Harris will be holding his yearly Soul Magic Retreat in Southern California this summer, and I can’t recommend Lee highly enough. We have co-led a retreat together and I’ve been fortunate enough not only to see him in action as a teacher but also as a channel, and he shines his otherworldly gifts in such a compassionate, accessible and joyful way. I’m including some of the promotional copy for the retreat beneath the poster below. Lee will blow your mind.

Learn more, watch a video about the experience and register HERE.

Going on a retreat can prove to be the cornerstone of one’s personal journey, allowing you to learn invaluable lessons about metaphysics, relationships, boundaries, and the power of connection. These memories and friendships can shape your life, helping you stay grounded and find fulfillment.

An incredible retreat experience will be taking place this summer, July 7-12 in La Jolla, CA, led by world renown transformational teacher and channeler, Lee Harris. You’ll spend the week with Lee (and a heart-centered group of seekers from all over the world) in daily workshops and restorative channeled sessions, where Lee will share messages from his guides, the Z's, accompanied by the enchanting music of Davor Bozic. You’ll learn vital life lessons, share laughter, shed some tears, and dance the nights away. The magic that unfolds during these gatherings is truly unforgettable.

Learn more, watch a video about the experience and register HERE.

Hi Friends,

Here’s another short video from the archives to take us into the weekend connected to the ever-present energies of peace and love within us. It can be incredibly helpful to remember that, if you have ever felt peaceful even for a moment, then it is in you to feel peaceful. The same goes for feeling self-loving or joyful or creative or sexy. If you’ve ever felt any of these energies, then it’s in you to feel them all.

Let’s not let our minds convince us we can’t access the very energies we’ve already accessed. Peace, love, joy and creativity are always alive with us. If we’re not feeling them, let’s consider that an invitation to be more intentional about connecting with, generating and sharing them.

Please don’t forget: you are powerful beyond measure in your ability to direct your life in alignment with your heart’s desires, your heart’s wisdom. Everything begins with willingness and intention. Follow that with action and there’s no saying what you can access within you, and what you can create for yourself and our world. Should you choose to.

I believe in you. I believe in us.

So much love to you all.

xoxo…Scott

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Upcoming Events:

Free Live Talk on Insight Timer on Friday, March 14th, at 3pm ET

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

Inner Peace & Power in Portugal (one room left) from November 9th-15th

Insight Timer Meditations:

You Are Enough, Just as You Are

The Messages of Your Heart

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits

Free Breathwork Offer:

Get free access to one of my live online breathwork journeys when you buy a paperback copy of Big Love. Email me a screenshot of your purchase, and come breathe with me for free (typically $25).

Happening Tonight, March 5th: Free Insight Timer Talk at 7pm ET, and Online Breathwork at 8pm ET.

Hi Friends,

I shared the above, 4-minute video more than three years ago, the day after I started this Bigger Love newsletter. Please ignore the reference to Friday, unless of course you’re watching this on a Friday. :)

As you may have picked up, I’m a big fan of generative questions, questions that invite responses that lead to more joy, connection, meaning and love in our lives. When we ask ourselves this type of leading question, are honest and intentional with our answers, and then willing to act in alignment with what we discover, we stand to create more fulfilling realities in our lives. It’s a 1 + 1 = 2 sort of thing.

Let me know what comes up for you when you ask yourself, How can I love myself right now? And let me know what other questions you find helpful to ask yourself on the regular.

We are with ourselves 24/7. There is no good reason not to prioritize the relationship we have with ourselves, to prioritize creating a more loving relationship with ourselves, no matter what. And remember: self-love never stops with self; it always serves all. That’s the nature of love.

Sending you all so much love and deep gratitude for your presence here. Keep shining your light and love on our world.

xoxo…Scott

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Upcoming Events:

Free Insight Timer Talk Tonight, March 5th, at 7pm ET

Online Breathwork Tonight, March 5th, at 8pm ET

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

Inner Peace & Power in Portugal (one room left) from November 9th-15th

Insight Timer Meditations:

You Are Enough, Just as You Are

The Messages of Your Heart

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits

Books:

Enough as You Are

Big Love: The Undeniable Joy of Following Your Heart

Offer: Get free access to one of my live online breathwork journeys when you buy a paperback copy of Big Love. Email me a screenshot of your purchase, and come breathe with me for free (typically $25).

Hi Friends,

The video I’m sharing today I recorded four years ago somewhere in rural New Mexico, days after a twenty-year friendship with one of my dearest friends ended. I remember the day of that recording very well. I remember feeling betrayed by the friend in question, wildly judgmental about some of his actions, and deeply sad about our break-up. I’d spent much of the day in anger and blame. And then I got sick of feeling angry and blameful, so I very intentionally shifted into my heart to ask for its guidance.

Of course, my heart, the bold lover that it is, encouraged the following: Just love him. Feel everything you need to feel about the situation, think everything your mind compels you to think about him, and send him love. You cannot hurt yourself by opening yourself to love. Love heals. It’s the attachments and expectations you place on love that create suffering. And, the moment you place any conditions on love, it becomes something else anyway. A product of the mind. Love has no conditions.

As I share in the video, I took my heart’s advice and decided to give energy not just to the friend in question but to everyone I could think of whom I didn’t like, or felt wronged by, or believed was causing harm to our world. One by one I brought them into my heart (lots of politicians!) until I felt genuine love for them. To be clear, I still didn’t like most of them or want any of them in my life. Love doesn’t require that. And let me tell you, it felt really good to see how loving I could be, no matter what. What extraordinary power there is in being able to love those your mind compels you to hate.

I hope the video resonates with you all. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

It is not necessary to compromise one single thing in the decision to love our fellow human beings, no matter what we think about them. Well, except for the suffering that comes with hating one another. A good compromise, I think. I am done with the us vs them energy of this country. I am done with the othering of one another. I am done with activism that doesn’t have, at its foundation, a commitment to compassion and love. Anything we feel called to do can be done with love, and everything we do with love is of service to ourselves and our world.

I feel called to say one more thing before I sign off: love is often the most difficult choice to make. We only need look at the state of the world to know that’s the case. As I wrote in the last email, difficult is not impossible. Not even close.

I know a lot of you reading this newsletter are lovers too, and I thank you with all my heart for your willingness to rest in yours. Let’s continue to do the difficult and extraordinarily beneficial work of loving the hell out of ourselves and our world.

Big and Bigger Love,

Scott

Upcoming Events:

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

Inner Peace & Power in Portugal (one room left) from November 9th-15th

Insight Timer Meditations:

You Are Enough, Just as You Are

The Messages of Your Heart

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits

Portugal Update: One room (as a single or double) just opened up for our November retreat in Portugal, so if you missed your chance because it sold out fast, then consider this your moment. Details here.

Detroit Folks: Live breathwork this Sunday the 23rd in Pleasant Ridge. Details here.

Other upcoming events listed below.

Hi Friends,

Coming at you from Shanghai, China, where I’ve been for the past week. There’s much to say about this city, but for know I’ll just share that I really like it here. I’m taken with the people, the vibe, the architecture and (some of) the food.

Before I adventure into the city on my last day here, I thought I’d share the above video with you. I recorded it four years ago when I was living in Santa Fe. If you’re feeling stuck, or resistant, or lost in some false notion that you are unworthy, not enough, less than, or other such nonsense (I swear it’s nonsense) then give the video a watch.

I find it helpful to remind myself that the energy that created all things is an energy coursing through my being too. It is an abundant, expansive, creative and wild energy, which means that when I connect to it I too am rooted in my capacity for abundance, expansion, creativity and wildness.

The limits we place on ourselves are not coming from this Source energy; they’re coming from our minds, our conditioning, our fears and insecurities. Which is to say, when we want to feel more worthy and empowered, it serves us to get out of our minds and into our hearts, bodies, souls, spirits. There’s so much magic happening within each of us, and most of it is found outside of our thoughts.

I hope the video gives you a little nudge to believe in yourself more deeply, and/or to step into the change you feel called to make.

I love you, and I believe in you.

xoxo…Scott

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Upcoming Events:

Live Breathwork in Pleasant Ridge, MI on Sunday, Feb. 23rd at 2pm ET

Inward Online Workshop on Sunday, March 9th at 1pm ET

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

New Meditations:

You Are Enough, Just as You Are, on Insight Timer

The Messages of Your Heart, on Insight Timer

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits, on Insight Timer

Be sure to check below for two new meditations and three upcoming events, including live gatherings in Pleasant Ridge, MI and Oak Park, IL.

Hi Friends,

If you’re struggling to find a sense of peace within all the insanity of the outside world and our very human minds, then I encourage you to watch the video above. I encourage you to prioritize your connection to the peace of your soul and the love of your heart. I encourage you to remember that both energies are alive with you, and all of us, all the time. Which is to say, we have a choice in how much we engage with the ever-present peace and love within, and that every time we choose to engage with these energies, we serve not only ourselves but our world.

I am whole-heartedly prioritizing peace right now. Perhaps that’s one of the gifts of the political instability in this country: it is continuously inviting me to look at ways in which I can become more grounded, more loving, and more peaceful, no matter how I’m choosing to show up. Not easy, but as important as ever.

I’d love to hear how the video landed for you, and by all means share some insights on how you have been connecting with peace these days.

I’m continuing to hold a deep prayer that, no matter what choices we make, we may find ourselves infusing them with more peace, compassion and love than ever.

Sending so much big love out to you all.

xoxo…Scott

Bigger Love is a reader-supported publication. If you find this space helpful, and have the means, please consider become a paid subscriber ($5/month or $50/year).

Upcoming Events:

Live Breathwork in Pleasant Ridge, MI on Sunday, Feb. 23rd at 2pm ET

Inward Online Workshop on Sunday, March 9th at 1pm ET

Enough as You Are Workshop in Oak Park, IL on Saturday, April 5th at 1:30pm CT

New Meditations:

The Messages of Your Heart, on Insight Timer

A Pep Talk to Lift Your Spirits, on Insight Timer

Upcoming:

Live-Online Breathwork Journey on Wednesday, Jan. 22nd, at 9pm ET

Free Live Insight Timer Talk on Friday, Jan. 24th, at 11am ET

Inner Peace and Power in Portugal Retreat from Nov. 9th - 15th

Hi Friends,

Today I pulled a card for us from the Sacred Earth Oracle deck, and the message definitely resonated, as I continue to bring awareness to the choices I’m making in my life and how they affect me. Let me know how the reading landed for you, and if you have other insights you’d like to share with us all.

Here’s the card:

Here’s the deck:

We are not bound to our patterns. It is within our capacity to make different choices than the ones that continue to create unfavorable outcomes. I’m not saying it’s easy to shift longstanding patterns, even (or especially) the unhealthy ones, but it is possible, with intention and commitment. And, ideally, with a lot of grace for the moments when we fall back into the patterns that don’t serve us. We’re human, after all.

I think one of the most powerful practices is also the most simple (at least to comprehend if not act upon): bring awareness to your choices and do more of what feels fulfilling and less of what doesn’t. If we did no other thing than that, we’d all be living much more fulfilling lives. Why not start right now?

Sending huge love out to all of you, and a deep prayer that we may each be willing and courageous enough to change the patterns that don’t serve us, as individuals and as a collective.

With so much gratitude and love,

Scott

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